Tamie Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.
Last month The Citizen, which is one of Tanzania’s main newspapers in both Swahili and English ran an article entitled ‘Is city life better than living in the village?’. It was almost like a high school debate where they had three opinions for each of the affirmative and negative teams. […]
Preachers of Another Gospel, Femi Adeleye All the examples in this theological and pastoral take down of prosperity gospel are African, so you don’t need to ‘leave’ Africa for this discussion. The author also offers positive examples of Christian discipleship and interaction with prosperity from his Nigerian background, so the […]
Combo of science and craft! This is Elliot doing ‘Blast off!’
It was the morning of a public holiday and we’d gone out for a family walk to buy some bananas from a local stall. People call out to us all the time so we thought nothing of replying pleasantly to the three drunk guys sitting on the new drain constructions […]
I doubt you can get these in Australia! These candles are like sparklers but the fireworks spurt up for about 60 seconds.
The Strays, Emily Bitto Winner of The Stella Prize for this year, this novel reminded me of Doris Lessig’s The Golden Notebook in its retrospective angle on a historical social movement, except that in The Strays I also felt like I actually got to know the characters though they were […]
Another use for paper plates – spider webs! We have stacks of spiders (along with various bugs) in our house so Elliot knows all about them and how to be safe around them. But these spiders were talking about having a tea party!
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